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|    Anton Shepelev to Gleb Hlebov    |
|    Some issues from some books    |
|    27 Nov 23 13:41:16    |
      MSGID: 2:221/6.0 65648056       REPLY: 2:221/1.0 65646350       PID: SmapiNNTPd/Linux/IPv6 3.0 20231126       NOTE: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-mingw32).       CHRS: CP437 2       TZUTC: 0200       Gleb Hlebov to Anton Shepelev:              AS>> Brick text is a colloquial term for a paragraph written       AS>> in monospace font that is perfectly right-adjusted       AS>> without additional whitespace. In your article from       AS>> 2023-04-04 23:52 you wrote two of them:              GH> Well, there are doubled spaces between sentences.              This is sentence spacing -- traditionlly used in typewriting       and in the better typographical books. If you will remember       the book on witchcraft in Suspiria, it has sentence spacing,       too.              GH> But, yes -- not tripled or quadrupled or too wide       GH> stretches between words, like you'd expect in MS Word       GH> and such. And the bricks appear so neatly packed it's       GH> almost unreal. :-)              Must be harder than verse.              ---         * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 15/0 90/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201 123/131       SEEN-BY: 129/305 153/7715 154/10 214/22 218/0 1 215 601 700 720 840       SEEN-BY: 218/850 860 870 880 930 221/1 6 226/30 227/114 229/110 112       SEEN-BY: 229/113 206 307 317 426 428 470 664 700 240/1120 266/512       SEEN-BY: 282/1038 291/111 301/1 113 320/219 322/757 335/364 341/66       SEEN-BY: 341/234 342/200 396/45 460/58 712/848 5020/400 1042 5075/35       PATH: 221/6 301/1 218/700 229/426           |
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